Findings
🎈60% of tests are low-yield: possible padding›
49 of 82 unique tests rarely change clinical management in routine screening.
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- BUN / Creatinine Ratio
- Estimated Average Glucose
- Absolute Lymphocyte Count
- Absolute Monocyte Count
- Absolute Neutrophil Count
- Immature Granulocytes
- Mean Platelet Volume
- Nucleated RBC
- Nucleated RBC Percentage
- Plateletcrit
- Platelet Distribution Width
- Platelet Large Cell Ratio
- Absolute Basophil Count
- RDW-SD
- Absolute Eosinophil Count
- Urine Specific Gravity
- Urine Leucocyte Esterase
- Urine Transparency
- Urine Bacteria
- Urine Bile Pigments
- Urine Blood
- Urine Urobilinogen
- Urine Bile Salts
- Urine Casts
- Urine Colour
- Urine Crystals
- Urine Epithelial Cells
- Urine Glucose
- Urine Ketones
- Urine Mucus
- Urine Nitrite
- Parasites
- Urine pH
- Urine Proteins
- Urine Volume
- Yeast
- Globulin
- Bilirubin Indirect
- SGOT/SGPT Ratio
- A/G Ratio
- HDL/LDL Ratio
- LDL / HDL Ratio
- Triglyceride/HDL Ratio
- VLDL Cholesterol
- Immature Granulocyte Count
- Urine Pus Cells
- Urine RBC
- Cholesterol / HDL Ratio
🔁2 lines listing a test already listed›
See each one in the lab's own words, and why it counts once🪞LDL/HDL ratio and HDL/LDL ratio are the same fact counted twice›
This package lists two values that are the same fact twice: LDL/HDL ratio and HDL/LDL ratio: Each is one divided by the other. Knowing either gives you the other exactly, so listing both adds a line to the count without adding anything to the result. Neither is wrong on its own, and neither is a duplicate. But the advertised test count is charging you for information you already had.
🕳️Missing coverage: vitamins
This package does not include tests from 1 key health area.
Listed more than onceA line in the lab's list that names a test already on the list. The advertised count goes up by one; you still get one result. We show the lab's own labels, exactly as printed, so you can check each one yourself.
2 lines of the advertised count come from 2 tests listed more than once.
- Same result, written another wayOne result written a second way: sorted into a category, converted to other units, or turned upside down as the reciprocal ratio. Nothing new is measured.+1 in the count
BUN is blood urea divided by 2.14, so the BUN ratio and the urea ratio are one result written in two units.
- Same test, listed twiceTwo names for one test, or the same name printed twice. Often the test appears in two sections of the report, such as the lipid profile and a heart risk panel. It is one reading from one sample.+1 in the count
“URINARY BILIRUBIN” and “BILE PIGMENT” are two names for Urine Bile Pigments: one reading from one sample, so it counts once.
- Same result, written another wayOne result written a second way: sorted into a category, converted to other units, or turned upside down as the reciprocal ratio. Nothing new is measured.not in the duplicate count
Each is one divided by the other. Knowing either gives you the other exactly, so listing both adds a line to the count without adding anything to the result.
Contents · 84 listed
🩸Blood
28- Hemoglobincore
- Platelet Countcore
- RBC Countcore
- Absolute Lymphocyte Countlow yield
- Absolute Monocyte Countlow yield
- Absolute Neutrophil Countlow yield
- Basophilscore
- Eosinophilscore
- Immature Granulocyteslow yield
- WBC Countcore
- Lymphocytescore
- MCHcore
- MCHCcore
- MCVcore
- Monocytescore
- Mean Platelet Volumelow yield
- Neutrophilscore
- Nucleated RBClow yield
- Nucleated RBC Percentagelow yield
- Plateletcritlow yield
- Hematocrit / PCVcore
- Platelet Distribution Widthlow yield
- Platelet Large Cell Ratiolow yield
- RDWconditional
- Absolute Basophil Countlow yield
- RDW-SDlow yield
- Absolute Eosinophil Countlow yield
- Immature Granulocyte Countlow yield
💧Urine
24- Urine Specific Gravitylow yield
- Urine Leucocyte Esteraselow yield
- Urine Transparencylow yield
- Urine Bacterialow yield
- Urine Bile Pigmentslisted as “URINARY BILIRUBIN”low yield
- Urine Bloodlow yield
- Urine Urobilinogenlow yield
- Urine Bile Pigmentslisted as “BILE PIGMENT”low yield
- Urine Bile Saltslow yield
- Urine Castslow yield
- Urine Colourlow yield
- Urine Crystalslow yield
- Urine Epithelial Cellslow yield
- Urine Glucoselow yield
- Urine Ketoneslow yield
- Urine Mucuslow yield
- Urine Nitritelow yield
- Parasiteslow yield
- Urine pHlow yield
- Urine Proteinslow yield
- Urine Volumelow yield
- Yeastlow yield
- Urine Pus Cellslow yield
- Urine RBClow yield
🟤Liver
12- GGTconditional
- Total Proteincore
- Albumincore
- Globulinlow yield
- SGOT / ASTcore
- SGPT / ALTcore
- Alkaline Phosphatasecore
- Bilirubin Directcore
- Bilirubin Totalcore
- Bilirubin Indirectlow yield
- SGOT/SGPT Ratiolow yield
- A/G Ratiolow yield
❤️Heart
10- Total Cholesterolcore
- HDL Cholesterolcore
- LDL Cholesterolcore
- Triglyceridescore
- HDL/LDL Ratiolow yield
- LDL / HDL Ratiolow yield
- Non-HDL Cholesterolconditional
- Triglyceride/HDL Ratiolow yield
- VLDL Cholesterollow yield
- Cholesterol / HDL Ratiolow yield
🫘Kidney
6- Blood Urea Nitrogenlow yield
- Serum Creatininecore
- Uric Acidconditional
- BUN / Creatinine Ratiolisted as “BUN / Sr.CREATININE RATIO”low yield
- BUN / Creatinine Ratiolisted as “UREA / SR.CREATININE RATIO”low yield
- Blood Ureacore
⚡Sugar
2- HbA1ccore
- Estimated Average Glucoselow yield
🦴Bone
1- Calciumconditional
🦋Thyroid
1Real tests, and free maths
22 of these 82 aren’t tests. They’re arithmetic on results you already paid for. No extra sample, no extra assay, no extra cost to the lab. Each one still adds a line to the advertised count.
This package is advertised as 84 tests. 27% of what we could resolve is calculated rather than measured.
Show the arithmetic›what each calculated value is worked out from
- Blood Urea Nitrogen= Blood Urea ÷ 2.14
- BUN / Creatinine Ratio= Blood Urea Nitrogen ÷ Creatinine
- Estimated Average Glucose= (28.7 × HbA1c) − 46.7
- Absolute Lymphocyte Count= WBC count × Lymphocyte %
- Absolute Monocyte Count= WBC count × Monocyte %
- Absolute Neutrophil Count= WBC count × Neutrophil %
- MCH= Hemoglobin ÷ RBC count
- MCHC= Hemoglobin ÷ Haematocrit
- Plateletcrit= Platelet count × MPV ÷ 10,000
- Absolute Basophil Count= WBC count × Basophil %
- Absolute Eosinophil Count= WBC count × Eosinophil %
- Globulin= Total Protein − Albumin
- Bilirubin Indirect= Total Bilirubin − Direct Bilirubin
- SGOT/SGPT Ratio= SGOT ÷ SGPT
- A/G Ratio= Albumin ÷ Globulin
- HDL/LDL Ratio= HDL ÷ LDL
- LDL / HDL Ratio= LDL ÷ HDL
- Non-HDL Cholesterol= Total Cholesterol − HDL
- Triglyceride/HDL Ratio= Triglycerides ÷ HDL
- VLDL Cholesterol= Triglycerides ÷ 5
- Immature Granulocyte Count= WBC count × Immature granulocyte %
- Cholesterol / HDL Ratio= Total Cholesterol ÷ HDL
None of this means a calculated value is useless. eGFR is calculated and doctors act on it every day. The narrower point is the one that matters when you are comparing prices: these were not separately tested, so they should not be separately counted.
Every input above is itself on the same report. For example, BUN / Creatinine Ratio needs nothing beyond Blood Urea Nitrogen and Serum Creatinine, both already measured.